Crossword-Solution: VOLTAIREAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Voltairean | a. | Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| VOLTAIREAN | anagram | VENATORIAL |
We have 3 clues for the answer “VOLTAIREAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| follower of Voltaire | 1 answer |
| À la the author of "Candide" | 1 answer |
| VOLTAIRE, follower of | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with VOLTAIREAN (5)
His neck had always been so tightly compressed by a strangulation stock, that his cheeks pouched over it a little, and he held his head high; to many people this would have given an air of self-sufficiency, but in the Vidame it was justified by a Voltairean wit.
Moreover, he lived in a time of reaction; it was the period of the restored Bourbons, of the Voltairean King Louis XVIII, governing to please orthodoxy.
Four of the bells at the Cathedral of Versailles having been destroyed during the French Revolution, four new ones were baptized, on the 6th of January, 1824, the Voltairean King, Louis XVIII, and the pious Duchess d'Angouleme standing as sponsors.
She will toss her head, or gently shrug her white shoulders; she will gild an insignificant speech with a charming pout and smile; or throw a Voltairean epigram into an ‘Indeed!’ an ‘Ah!’ a ‘What then!’ A jerk of her head will be her most pertinent form of questioning; she will give meaning to the movement by which she twirls a vinaigrette hanging to her finger by a ring.
The old theory of imposture, the Voltairean theory of a ‘poor idiot,’ the vague charge of ‘hysteria,’ are untenable.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2001).